hi, i was trying to link the example program statically,but i am unable to get past a problem. in the following line program execution stops, screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(width,height,bpp,videoFlags); strace a.out ioctl(4, VT_ACTIVATE, 0x4) = 0 ioctl(4, VT_WAITACTIVE the execution stops in the above line.please help me to get through it.